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Re: No more releases from master branch...
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James |
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Re: No more releases from master branch... |
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Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:51:46 +0100 |
David,
On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:25:38 +0200
David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ok, I've started sorting out stable and master branch and pushed some
> 2.21-change on top of some already 2.21-only changes in master.
As I cannot remember what we did in the last fork to stable, I assume I
just keep testing on current master and pushing to 'staging' as normal.
I also assume that I don't need to do anything special with regard to
'Patchy' (that just merges staging and master)?
>
> The next changes I'd want to push require convert-ly rules. Those
> rules have to be for 2.21.0 to avoid clashing with any work/fixes we
> may still be making on the stable branch. This means that we should
> stop releasing from master until 2.20.0 has been released from the
> stable/2.20 branch. The stable/2.20 branch is currently wired for
> making the next release as 2.19.80. I don't know how many 2.19
> releases we will actually need. I hope not more than a few until we
> are reasonably sure 2.20 can be released without major backlash.
>
> What should be done in stable/2.20?
>
> Documentation/changes.tely should be reorganized: it is currently in
> chronological order which does not make sense for the stable release.
> It should be organized topically.
I'll start a tracker and try to start work on that tonight.
> We want some assurance that recent
> changes did not come with big followup problems. And we want the
> translation teams to have a chance of catching up to the current
> state.
>
Anything else, as Patch Meister, that I should care about?
James